Love of my life ~Gaara~ Chapter 1

Chapter 32: Kazekage (The bitch from hell)

Well, today's the day. The day of the final exams. The day we prove ourselves as ninja and as humans. I got my cast off a month ago, so I had to do some hardcore training withGina, Kiskae,and Gaara. I would have trained with Sasuke and Narutobut they were MIA. Something about private training. I don't know, I don't pay attention enough.

So I walked down the street to the arena where the final exam was being held. It was quiet. Which was weird considering the event of the day. But there were few people out walking and they all had their eyes down and were ghost quiet. Did something happen? Or is something going to happen? I don't know.

I pushed that aside and continued my way to the arena. (Though still thoroly freaked out by the quiet) Anyway, once I got there, a staff guy had me stand in a line with the other finalist. I looked down the line and found Gaara. Shit, he's scouling. I saw no Naruto or Sasuke.

It was kinda fucked up. So we had to stand there for God knows how long until the Hokage got up to start a speech. Hey look. There's Gaara's dad. He does not look like a very pleasnt man. Oh well. Well just before the Hokage started his speech, Naruto comes running in yelling something about a stampeed of bulls. But apon further inspection... there was none.

He got in line next to me looking down trod.

"Hey man, I believe you." I said.

He looked up and smiled hugely. So the speech had something to do with congradulating us finalist, explaining the rules, something about if we lose our match we can still become chunnin. Just stuff we've been told before. So we all got up into the stands and waited for the first match to start.

I took a seat next to Gaara and placed a hand on his shoulder. He just nodded his head still looking down at the fight. Don't you just love it when your boyfriend gets really focused on something?

Well at least I had Tem-chan and Kankuro-kun to talk to.

"So temari, who are you fighting?" I asked.

"Some guy named Shikamaru."

"Ohmygod! Shika is like my number one guy to go to for another person to play soccer with. He might be lazy, but he sure does a hell of a job on offensse."

"God are you like friends with everyone around here?" Kankuro asked.

"Only the guys and two girls."

"Why?"

"Cause girl's are annoying. Shut up, I know i'm a girl. But still. Besides, most of the girls around here are Sasuke fangirls and fangirls are the worst things to be around." I looked at Temari with a sad look. "Temmy, never become a fangirl please. My life would be a horrible pit if I knew someone as strong and awsome as you could fall to the demense of fangirlness."

She sweat dropped and patted my head.

"Have you ever noticed that you use a highschool level vocabulary word and a non-word in the same sentence when you really want something?" She asked.

"Yes."

"Just making sure." Anyway Kankuro had to go down for his match, but the moment it started he forfitted. I was all 'what the hell man?' So then Gaara had to go down. But no one else was down there.

"Hey Tem, how's he fighting anyway?"

"A good pal of yours." She said, gently poking my nose.

"Oh no." I whispered. So the reffs gave Sasuke until the end of the matches to show up or he forfitted. I could breath easy for alittle while. Yeah the guys a prick and he constanly breaks my bones but I don't wanna watch the poor kid get murdered. But then Naruto was down there against Neji. Fuckin A. So it really was kinda slow. I mean most of it was Neji talking about his family and some other random shit. But the entire time I was sitting there playing with my jack-o-lantern clip the held back my now shoulder length blonde hair and flicking the bill of my hat.

Unfortunatly I wasn't able to see the end of Naruto and Neji's match. I grabbed from behind by four sand ninja. Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara had all been sitting on the bensh in front of me so they didn't see me get grabbed.

I thrashed and tried to get away, but damn are sand ninja ever strong. Well, they dumpped me right outside the Hokages veiwing box at the feet of the Kazekage. Great, what does this prick want?

"Hello there Stephanie Alcot Gyno. I would like to speak with you about your relasionship with my youngest son, Gaara." He said.

I stood and dusted myself off. "Yeah, what about it?"

His eyes narrowed at me. "You have a bit of an attatude don't you?"

"Glad you noticed."

"Gaara doesn't really care about you know. He's just playing with you. Like a cat with a mouse." I stood there looking him straite in the eye. "He is incapable of loving another. He was born to be the ultimate weapon."

"Exuse me there Mr. Man. What your born for and what your born to be are two completly differant things. Gaara was born with Shukaku inside of him which made people afraid of him. Fortunatly there are people like me out there who fear few things and understand the differance between bad and misunderstood. He was born because you wanted a weapon of great power. Thats bad parenting by the way. How did your wife feel about the whole thing, hm? Or did you really care? Seems to me like all you want is to make yourself stronger and you don't care who you hurt or kill in the proccess. But listen to this. Gaara for the past four months i've known him has changed a great deal from the first time we met. He was so cold and violent. Yet just yesterday he comforted a crying child at the park. You know why? Because he was born to be good. No, he was born to be great. And no matter what you think or what you say, it will stay that way. So stick that in your pants and sit on it."

He looks a mixture of things from my little speech. Angry, confused, surprised, awed. I turnned around and stared walking back out, just in time to hear my name get called to come down for my match.